When the revolution comes some of us will
probably catch it on TV, with chicken hanging from our mouths. You'll know its
revolution cause there won't be no commercials

When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

Preacher pimps are gonna split the scene with
the communion wine stuck in their back pockets

Faggots won’t be so funny then and all the
junkies will quit their noddin’ and wake up When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

Transit cops will be crushed by the trains
after losing their guns and blood will run through the streets of Harlem
drowning anything without substance

When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

Our pearly white teeth froth the mouths that
speak of revolution without reverence

The cost of revolution is 360 degrees
understand the cycle that never ends

Understand the beginning to be the end and
nothing is in between but space and time that I make or you make to relate or
not to relate to the world outside my mind your mind. Speak not of revolution
until you are willing to eat rats to survive

When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes; guns and rifles will
be taking the place of poems and essays. Black cultural centers will forts
supplying the revolutionaries with food and arms when the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

White death will froth the walls of museums and
churches breaking the lies that enslaved our mothers when the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

Jesus Christ is gonna be standing on the corner
of Lennox Ave and 125th St trying to catch the first gypsy cab out of Harlem,
when the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

Jew merchants will give away motza balls and gifilka
fish to anyone they see with afros. Frank Shieffin will give away the Apollo to
the first person he sees wearing a blue dashiki, when the revolution comes

When the revolution comes afros gone be trying
to straighten their heads and straightened heads gone be tryin to wear afros

When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

When the revolution comes

But until then you know and I know niggers will
party and bullshit and party and bullshit and party and bullshit and party and
bullshit and party...